The Secrets of the Little Greek Taverna
- Location(s): Naxos
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Contemporary
Cressida is stuck. Cressida once dreamt of opening a gorgeous guest house and taverna with her husband – but when he died, so did the dream. Lost in grief, Cressida is offered two choices – let a big hotel...
The Secrets of Vesuvius (The Roman Mysteries)
- Location(s): Naples
- Genre(s): Children
- Era(s): AD79
It’s the summer of AD 79 and Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan, Nubia and Lupus, set sail for the Bay of Naples where they are going to stay with Flavia’s uncle near Pompeii. Once they arrive, they are...
- Location(s): Calabria
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery, Romance
- Era(s): Post 2014
Some places stay with you forever… When Ellie Maddison is sent on a business trip to Southern Italy, she’s reminded why she loves her job – set amongst rolling vineyards and rich olive groves, the beautiful Villa Rosso is...
- Location(s): Southern Italy
- Genre(s): Romance, Fiction
When Ellie Maddison is sent on a business trip to Southern Italy, she’s reminded why she loves her job – set amongst rolling vineyards and rich olive groves, the beautiful Villa Rosso is the perfect escape from her life...
- Location(s): Japan, Corsica, Hawai'i, The South of France (Le Midi)
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1950 - 2012
The deep traditions and values of Kaito Tanaka’s Japanese heritage are severely tested when he returns home to Honolulu from duty in Vietnam to find his wife Hana in the grip of progressive mental health challenges. As Hana’s condition...
- Location(s): Washington DC, Russia
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 1950s
TWO FEMALE SPIES. A BANNED MASTERPIECE. A BOOK THAT CHANGED HISTORY. 1956. A celebrated Russian author is writing a book, Doctor Zhivago, which could spark dissent in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, afraid of its subversive power, ban it....
- Location(s): Hastings, Sheffield
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Modern and 1976
It was a summer of love, and a summer of secrets… She has built a good life: a husband who adores her, a daughter she is fiercely proud of, a home with warmth and love at its heart. But...
- Location(s): Tuscany
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Rose waits for her family to arrive at their villa in Tuscany when a casual glance at her husband’s phone tips her world upside down. The text reads simply: ‘Miss you. Love you. Come back soon.’ Daniel has always...
- Location(s): London, Rome
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1939 / 1997
Rome 1939 Arriving in Rome to work for the wealthy Montefalco family, Maddalena is homesick and alone. She finds solace – and love – in the beauty of the city, but as the war in Nazi-occupied Italy rages, she...
The Selected Works of Abdullah the Cossack
- Location(s): Karachi
- Genre(s): Humour, Fiction
- Era(s): Modern
Abdullah, bachelor and scion of a once prominent family, awakes on the morning of his seventieth birthday and considers launching himself over the balcony. Having spent years attempting to compile a ‘mythopoetic legacy’ of his beloved Karachi, the cosmopolitan...
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